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Good riddance to bad rubbish at a north Auckland tip
More than half of Auckland's rubbish gets dumped at one landfill, where waste is turned into energy to power homes and grow food.
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Festival failures prompt calls for shake-up in ticket rules
25 Mar 2025Forking out big bucks for music festivals is always a risk, but simple changes could make fans rest a little easier.
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In Delhi and D.C., Christopher Luxon and Winston Peters in their elements
24 Mar 2025Taking the train with Winston Peters and watching Christopher Luxon play cricket: what it's like traveling with a foreign trade delegation
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Excavating a historical waka, and the story that goes with it
22 Mar 2025The discovery of a waka buried on the coastline of Rēkohu - Chatham Islands has caused a century-old tension to resurface.
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The extreme physical toll of nine months in space
21 Mar 2025Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back the earth, but their bodies and minds may never catch up.
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'Bewildered' experts not on board for fisheries changes
20 Mar 2025The government wants to streamline regulations, but marine advocates worry the changes would make fishing less transparent and expedite destruction of the ocean.
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The rules of cussing in trademarks
19 Mar 2025With trademark applications surging, The Detail looks at what it takes to get a mark registered in New Zealand.
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The art of tiptoeing around Donald Trump
18 Mar 2025Former New Zealand ambassador to the US Tim Groser explains the tightrope walk of pleasing the US president.
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The film festival where the theme is fraud
17 Mar 2025Swindles, scams and deception take centre-stage at Wellington's highly specific documentary film festival.
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Six years on, new documentary honours mosque attack victims
15 Mar 2025Today marks six years since the Christchurch mosque attacks. One couple's new documentary honours the lives lost - and the lives changed as a result.
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The high price of saving money on free lunches
14 Mar 2025The school lunch debacle is causing an increasing clamour to rip it up and start again.
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Electricians fear the Right to Repair Bill could be deadly
13 Mar 2025The bill passed its first reading in Parliament last month, but one trade feels the amendment is a live wire.
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Why we want to be mates with Vietnam
12 Mar 2025New Zealand is after a trade slice of rapidly growing Vietnam, and a new agreement should strengthen those connections.
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Sound-wave technology could cool sauna-like apartments
11 Mar 2025New building products being tested at Auckland University may be the answer to restless summer nights in city apartments. Audio
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Stoush brews over future of golf course
10 Mar 2025On Auckland's North Shore, a public golf course is fighting council plans to use their course as a floodwater catchment.
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In a 'post-truth' world, Wikipedia is coming out on top
8 Mar 2025In a world where misinformation and disinformation are rampant, the website has become an unlikely source of truth.
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The rising rage of the world's (formerly) nicest people
Canadians are united in their horror over US tariffs that have the power to plunge the country into recession and cause mass unemployment.
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The shockingly bad press for ECT
6 Mar 2025Up to 300 New Zealanders a year are administered electric shock treatment - and the vast majority are happier for it.
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Time to ditch your 3G phone
5 Mar 2025Tens of thousands of handsets and other devices are likely to become redundant by the end of the year as NZ shuts down the 3G phone network.
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How citizen's arrest laws could make New Zealand more dangerous
The government wants to make retail a safer work environment by allowing for citizen's arrests. One legal expert fears the change will have the opposite effect.
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Preparing our kids for the wild world of the internet
3 Mar 2025Are we paying enough attention to giving our children the ability to sort out what's real and what's not in the murky depths of the internet?
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Changes underway for media industry, but it's a messy process
Media oversight and regulation is described as messy, and screen productions desperately need help.
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Indians in Wellington: More than just Diwali and overstaying
1 Mar 2025A new book promises to lift the lid on the history of the capital's Indian community, as its association turns 100.
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The growing number of 'sovereign citizens' clogging up courts
27 Feb 2025They believe they are exempt from laws. But that doesn't stop the law from coming after them.
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A change in thinking over shaken baby syndrome
26 Feb 2025A supposed shaken baby case is raising questions over the misdiagnosis of injured infants, with authorities rushing to lay the blame on parents.
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Why NZ's corruption ranking could affect your mortgage
25 Feb 2025The country has been "complacent" about its reputation for honesty and has fallen in a major global index.
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NZ doco maker on the case for convicted UK baby killer
24 Feb 2025How a Kiwi documentary producer has been instrumental in getting authorities to revisit one of the most notorious murder cases the United Kingdom has ever seen Audio
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Defence budget comes under scrutiny
21 Feb 2025Our cash-strapped, underfunded, overspent defence force is in line for a budget boost, and experts say it can't come soon enough.
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